Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements...
Bentinck-Smith who became editor when McCord resigned in 1946 and held the post until last winter, brought the magazine more certainly than over into competition with leading commercial publications. His aim, he says, was to make the bulletin combine the news efficiency of Time with the literary flavor of The New Yorker, and his efforts toward that end were officially recognized in 1948 by the Sibley award committee...
...improve the flavor of the cheese, crackers are also served at meetings, and to wash down the flavor of one cheese before sampling another, wine is served...
...meetings the comments of each member are recorded. The members sample the cheese looking for four different qualities--its color and appearance, texture, aroma, and flavor...
This kind of fare is varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise...